Kildare have now lost 12 in a row in all competitions(I’ve seen in one report) “HOLY JAYSUS”!!! Meath now in second year of McEntee and going backwards. These managers unfortunately seems to be about themselves on every interview I’ve seen. No disrespect to all but a few counties, these lads should be playing club football until 2 weeks before a match cause they are not good enough footballers and need as much playing time as they can.

Meath, Kildare and Laois should be demoted to the Declan Nerney Cup. Hope they rot for all their years of incompetence, waste, media love-ins and hype, not to mention Meaths long run as the heads of the National Dirtbirds Assoc. Talk of provincial football standards is a pure red herring, it’s about counties, some are doing the right things, others are not.

This is a black and shameful day for Leinster football. Neither of those victories had anything to do with financial doping. Pure and utter incompetence at every level in both counties.

Kildare have started to get house in order in recent years at underage however they spent a fortune on outsiders managers like Micko and McGeeney and not forgetting the outside players too. Meath completely took the eye off the ball at underage., At one stage Banty and John Evans were in charge ,money would better off invested in underage structures. As well as have poor senior teams Meath and Kildare have poor stadiums and are unable to host decent championship games so their county boards should be looking at themselves rather than deflecting the blame to Dublin.

yes, in the programme for the wicklow match there was an article on how the leinster council have basically taken what is happening in dublin and imposed it on kildare, meath louth and (i think) westmeath. they are sending in GDO’s to meath and kildare like its custers last stand.

TBF their underage teams are no mugs, the malaise is in the senior set up.

Bitter from Brazil actually had the cheek to Rt someone blaming kildares loss on dublin, followed it up with something along the lines of “why bother training knowing you’ll end up beat by dublin along the line”. This from a guy who was a player at one stage is a disgrace. Why do i bother with the dublin marathon, sure i’m not going to win it by beating those African lads who come in.

if there is a silver lining anywhere he will put a cloud around it - he was even having a pop at the referendum result ffs with the old “oh yeah, where is the big movement on jobs, homelessness” line. as someone said elsewhere, even the anti dub element who adore him are starting to twig.

bitter. he has mentioned it a few times, certainly college level in dublin so i assume also his club (athy). the man has some serious chips on his shoulder in general and seems to believe that he is the kid from the wrong side of the tracks who has always been thwarted by the powerful and rich. You may find that revealing.